Chapter 76: The Perfect Lie

  Zhang Shan walked out of the room and saw Ling Yuwei also coming out of another room not far away, looking pretty good.

  He knew this wasn't a place for reminiscing, so he just slightly nodded at her, and Ling Yuwei responded with a charming smile.

  Following the executor, he once again stepped into the Law Enforcement Hall. The people sitting in the hall were still the same as last time, the only difference being that Xing Yuebo also appeared in the great hall this time.

  After the two men bowed and stood with their hands hanging down, Zhang Shan's face was calm and his eyes did not glance sideways. Ling Yu, however, stared at Xing Yuebo on the side with a fierce gaze, as if she wanted to kill him with her eyes.

  The host of the Law Enforcement Hall, Pu Cheng, cleared his throat and said, "Everyone is here now, so let's follow what was previously agreed upon and first test whether Zhang Shan can withstand the Seven-Colored Butterfly's Illusory Poison."

  He glanced at the various peak elders present, pointing to a jade box on the side table: "The three people's Xuemi rings were all collected ten days ago and placed in this jade box, so Zhangshan is now unable to take Qingling Fan and other elixirs."

  Since everyone had no objection, he then said to Zhang Shan: "Are you ready now? If there's no problem, I'll start."

  Zhang Shan nodded: "The disciple has no problem, please start, Master."

  Then, with a flick of his sleeve, several seven-colored butterfly-like creatures flew out and landed on him. His hand circled once more, and beside him, a True Yuan boundary was set up.

  Zhang Shan stood still, and after a moment, he felt double vision appearing in front of him, knowing that the illusion was taking effect. His mind stirred, and he let Ling'er take control of his body.

  Two quarters of an hour later, Yu Pu Cheng looked at Zhang Shan's still clear eyes and nodded, withdrew the true yuan, and conveniently shattered those illusory butterflies into powder.

  "Gentlemen, it seems that he has a divine consciousness technique that is not afraid of illusions. Is this certain and without doubt?" Yu Pu Cheng asked the two men.

  Yue Zhen Hai said in a low voice: "I have no objection, please continue, Master Yu."

  Hong Xingtao snorted coldly: "Even if they are not afraid of the plague, it does not prove their innocence."

  Nan Ruo Li immediately sneered, "Ten days ago, someone said that my disciple didn't dare to take the test, so his confession was unreliable. Now he has passed the test, and you say it can't prove his innocence? You're the one who gets to decide what's black and white! Elder Hong, if you weren't a cultivator, I'm sure you'd make a great lawyer!"

  Hong Xingtao sneered and said, "You don't have to squeeze me, being able to pass this test only proves that his confession is flawless, but it doesn't prove that he's telling the truth. Everyone knows that in their hearts."

  "Is that so? Then everyone should be clear, Xing Yuebo's words may not necessarily be true either. You don't have to put on an air of being in the right just because you're the first to speak out. What's real can't be fake, and what's fake can't be real." Nan Ruoli said with a light smile.

  Zhang Shan thought to himself that his master was originally a person who wouldn't take any losses, but the feeling of being protected by someone else was really great.

  Yu Pu Cheng lightly tapped the table and said, "Alright, let's continue. Both of you have different words, but one of you must be lying. Now, in front of everyone, tell us what happened again."

  Everyone was waiting for each other to speak up first. Yu Pu Cheng furrowed his brow and said, "Since you, Xing Yuebo, were the one who accused him first, then let's have you go first."

  Xing Yuebo nodded and responded with a "yes", then began his statement.

  Zhang Shan had always wanted to know how Xing Yuebo fabricated his lies, and as he listened to his narrative, Zhang Shan couldn't help but admire the cunning little man's skill at spinning a tale.

  He and Suo Changtian, along with Feng Pingyuan, had agreed to go to Bingfeng Ridge to hunt the Ice Fire Spider. Then Ling Yuwei brought Zhang Shan and found him, saying she was willing to join them. Since he had formed a party with her several times before, he naturally didn't have any reason to refuse.

  However, Ling Yuwei revealed a message that in the spider's den of Sub-Mountain Valley, there is a double-born flower that is about to mature. They rushed together to Sub-Mountain Valley to take a look. If they had the chance, they would seize it; if not, they would kill other demonic spiders, achieving two goals at once.

  So everyone was moved and decided to go to Ziwu Valley.

  Then, when camping two thousand miles inside the forest, they encountered a group of ghost-faced bats.

  After driving away the Ghost-faced Bat, they had wasted a lot of time. Ling Yu proposed to head towards the Man-eating Demon Vine Forest because going through there was the shortest route to the Valley of Yin and Yang.

  She also said that she had Qingling Dan with her, so there was no need to fear the hallucinations, and everyone agreed after some consideration.

  It wasn't until they arrived at the Devilish Fungus Forest that she found out she had only brought three Clear Spirit Pills, but there were five people in the group.

  At this time, Zhang Shan proposed that three of them would each take one pill, and the remaining two would be carried by those who had taken the medicine, so that the people trapped in the illusion would not be in danger.

  Because Ling Yuwei kept saying that the Double Blossom Flower was about to mature, everyone decided to do it this way in order to save time.

  As Ling Yuwei was a girl, it wasn't suitable for everyone to carry her, so she had to eat one herself. Xing Yuebo, because he had the highest cultivation level, also had to eat one to stay awake and respond to the crisis.

  The two remaining ones were given to Huang Yanfeng by Suo Changtian, who ate one and carried Feng Pingyuan on his back, while Zhang Shan was carried by Xing Yuebo himself.

  Unexpectedly, when entering the center of the Devil's Vine Forest, Zhang Shan, who should have fallen into an illusion without taking medicine, suddenly launched a sneak attack on himself. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and managed to save his life despite being seriously injured.

  At this time, Ling Yuwei also took the opportunity to attack Su Changtian and seriously injured him. Meanwhile, Feng Pingyuan, who was trapped in an illusion, unfortunately encountered difficulties.

  Next, due to injury, he and Suo Lang Tian had no choice but to break through and escape.

  At that time, under his questioning, Ling Yuwei thought they couldn't escape, so she revealed the reason why she did this.

  It turned out that during the last team-up with Ling Yuwei, he inadvertently discovered a clue about Ling Yuwei getting a Wu Sheng Dongfu, but he didn't have any prying intentions and promised not to tell anyone.

  However, Ling Yuwei didn't believe him and was afraid he would leak the information out, so she had been looking for an opportunity to kill him. This time, she used the temptation of the Double Birth Flower to set a trap with Zhang Shan to kill him.

  Suo Changtian and Feng Pingyuan happened to meet at the wrong time and suffered the misfortune of being in the same boat.

  After a hard fight, he and Suo Changtian narrowly escaped. After simple treatment of his wounds, when his strength had recovered by more than half, he decided to go to the Cave of the Demonic Spider to take revenge on the two men.

  Finally found them in the spider's nest, where they were caught up in a fierce battle between spiders and ended up killing each other. Luckily, they obtained the Double Birth Flower and also harvested a large number of demon corpses.

  Next, both sides started fighting, but due to their injuries not being fully healed, their strength was affected, and they also underestimated Zhang Shan's strength.

  After a fierce battle, Suo Changtian was killed, and he had no choice but to return to the sect to report the matter and ask for the sect's disposal.

  After listening to Xing Yuebo's vivid and detailed account, Zhang Shan, who had been carefully searching for loopholes in his lies, felt a few points of helplessness. This lie was so intricately woven that it was almost perfect, and for the time being, he couldn't find any suspicious spots.

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